Scratch and China (Discussion on Recent Website Block)

-InsanityPlays-

mtech22 wrote:
Basic88 wrote:
-InsanityPlays- wrote:
kinda ironic how china banned scratch the same day apple banned fortnite am i rite guys
[offtopic]It's not just iOS that blocked it, but also android.[/offtopic]
]why? not that i didn't want it to be banned.[]
Maybe they're connected somehow…

Welp, it's because V-Bucks were lowered for Epic Direct Payment which violates the Apple Store Guidelines and Google was also mad at it. You can still get it by using the Samsung Store or the Epic Games launcher and Epic also took legal action. For Scratch the ban was put forward for I don't know why.

Basic88

-InsanityPlays- wrote:
. For Scratch the ban was put forward for I don't know why.

Read post #50 of this topic for why.

pavcato

Honestly, I'm surprised the CCP even knew about Scratch and banned it.

Flowermanvista

pavcato wrote:
Honestly, I'm surprised the CCP even knew about Scratch and banned it.

According to the Stats page, there are 57,630,531 registered accounts - taking a very conservative estimate of 33% of those being unique people, that's somewhere in the realm of 20,000,000 unique people who have used Scratch - and there's probably a number of people who don't use it but know it exists. There's also enough secondary sources written about it for it to have a Wikipedia article - and generally, they don't want to hear about your thing if the outside world hasn't heard of it.

So Scratch is certainly not obscure - it's not ultra famous either, but it's not obscure.

-PastelPastry-

The obvious reason is because America, China are both enemies and because America Blocked TikTok because they do not like China, China blocked scratch because Americans made it. India are Allies with America and Pakistan are Allies with China

Scratch don't sue this and ppl pls don't report this I'm trying to tell the truth.

pavcato

Flowermanvista wrote:
pavcato wrote:
Honestly, I'm surprised the CCP even knew about Scratch and banned it.
According to the Stats page, there are 57,630,531 registered accounts - taking a very conservative estimate of 33% of those being unique people, that's somewhere in the realm of 20,000,000 unique people who have used Scratch - and there's probably a number of people who don't use it but know it exists. There's also enough secondary sources written about it for it to have a Wikipedia article - and generally, they don't want to hear about your thing if the outside world hasn't heard of it.

So Scratch is certainly not obscure - it's not ultra famous either, but it's not obscure.

I knew that, its Alexa rank is about 300 - 350 but I wasn't expecting the CCP.

-PastelPastry-

I mean Scratch has its Wikipedia article

mtech22

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Last edited by mtech22 (Aug. 14, 2020 21:50:54)

SupernixPrograming

They can use Proxy or VPN. Especially Opera VPN is good

Last edited by SupernixPrograming (Aug. 14, 2020 21:40:42)

Basic88

mtech22 wrote:
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It's #521 btw

Now it has been put on Wikiapedia for websites blocked in Mainland China. This confirms that China has blocked Scratch.

Last edited by Basic88 (Aug. 14, 2020 22:17:19)

mtech22

4096bits wrote:
Yeetoburro1 wrote:
Basic88 wrote:
The Scratch Team hasn't posted yet
I'm honestly surprised by that
A mod already merged the topic, so they probably know this issue is present, but they have not posted in this topic.
ayy 101th post

And Za-Chary noticed it, someone (or multiple people) pointed it out on his profile.

Basic88

mtech22 wrote:
4096bits wrote:
Yeetoburro1 wrote:
Basic88 wrote:
The Scratch Team hasn't posted yet
I'm honestly surprised by that
A mod already merged the topic, so they probably know this issue is present, but they have not posted in this topic.
ayy 101th post
And Za-Chary noticed it, someone (or multiple people) pointed it out on his profile.

Ah, that was me. He said he would say what he knew, but then he said he'll ask another ST member.

ThatOneWeirdDude

mtech22 wrote:
It's #521 btw

that article links to another article regarding a very inappropriate website and the website can be found near the very top, I suggest you remove it.

Basic88

ThatOneWeirdDude wrote:
mtech22 wrote:
It's #521 btw
that article links to another article regarding a very inappropriate website and the website can be found near the very top, I suggest you remove it.

D**cord?

ThatOneWeirdDude

Basic88 wrote:
ThatOneWeirdDude wrote:
mtech22 wrote:
It's #521 btw
that article links to another article regarding a very inappropriate website and the website can be found near the very top, I suggest you remove it.
D**cord?

starts with a P, ends with a B.

adult content it containd

Basic88

ThatOneWeirdDude wrote:
Basic88 wrote:
ThatOneWeirdDude wrote:
mtech22 wrote:
It's #521 btw
that article links to another article regarding a very inappropriate website and the website can be found near the very top, I suggest you remove it.
D**cord?
starts with a P, ends with a B.

adult content it containd

Well, I can screenshot the thing in the list for scratch.

Last edited by Basic88 (Aug. 14, 2020 21:56:44)

garnet-chan

ThatOneWeirdDude wrote:
Basic88 wrote:
ThatOneWeirdDude wrote:
mtech22 wrote:
It's #521 btw
that article links to another article regarding a very inappropriate website and the website can be found near the very top, I suggest you remove it.
D**cord?
starts with a P, ends with a B.

adult content it containd

Yeah… You should remove that.

pavcato

ThatOneWeirdDude wrote:
mtech22 wrote:
It's #521 btw
that article links to another article regarding a very inappropriate website and the website can be found near the very top, I suggest you remove it.

Yes, but it's for informative purposes because it was banned and they have to add a link for every website banned. I'm sure it can stay up.

geometric_ghast

garnet-chan wrote:
LankyBox01 wrote:
Oh gosh.
So… all the accounts from china (20K) will be inactive.
But the good news is: The Chinese people are allowed to use VPNs
I'm pretty sure using a VPN is illegal in China.

China blocks YT, but people use VPN's to access it. I don't think scratchers in china that really care about scratch will quit because of the block, they will just use a VPN

-PastelPastry-

NO BODY CARED ABOUT MY WORDS!!!? :mad :mad :mad

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